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AMD have announced they will be officially killing off the ATi brand, replacing it with AMD branding. Info on Tech Report, Anandtech and PC Perspective. Furthermore, AMD tells us it feels confident in making this change right now because its graphics business is "on a roll," having surpassed rival Nvidia in discrete graphics shipments last quarter, according to analyst estimates, and having secured high-profile design wins with the likes of Apple. Discussion here.
XbitLabs have a few comparisons, with GeForce GTX 460 SLI vs. Radeon HD 5970 in the video card arena, and Thermalright Silver Arrow vs. Noctua NH-D14 and Thermalright HR-02 vs. Noctua NH-D14 on the cooling side of things. Thermalright is trying to regain its leading positions in the market by launching two new air coolers for central processors. Have they managed to accomplish their ultimate goal?
BnH1 sent in this interesting article about startups by ex-Googlers. Many of these Xooglers (yes, that’s what former Googlers call themselves) have decided to scale down and start-up. Xoogler-founded businesses are making headlines everywhere as they are acquired by Google (Google), its competitors, find funding from other Xooglers, and blaze new trails on the web. Here are 15 companies that have sprung forth from the minds of those who once staffed the web giant.
iXBTLabs have done some CPUID fiddling to see how Intel's compiler deals with different CPUs. There's also a dispatcher that selects the needed code path. Thanks to Agner Fog, who has found out how to change the CPUID data of the VIA Nano processor, we now can conduct an independent "fairness" test and see what's going on.
Today's timewaster is Type Racer, where you can compete with other fast typists.
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